June 19, 2007

Toilet Sensei

Anyone within thirty feet of my cubicle "walls" at work a few moments ago would have known that I wasn't exactly crunching numbers in Excel. Rather, any hysterical laughter resulted from learning important pointers about potty-training children from Sweet Juniper! (one of the best sites on the Internet, ever). Now, I do not have any kids (I'm barely managing to babysit a cat this week, let alone cultivating a relationship that would produce said children) and am not entirely comfortable with talking about bodily functions (in real life or online, for that matter), but this is one simply one of the best sentences of all time:

It turns out that a huge part of successfully potty training Juniper was not using a system of rewards, but cultivating a sense of mystique and ritual around the excretory functions themselves in the context of the bathroom.

It keeps getting better-- Dutch has linked to Japanese toilet training videos that are equally humorous. Now I just have to make sure my headphones are plugged in to avoid gracing the office with a chorus of tigers singing about the W.C.-- that one would be much harder to explain.